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A new welcome to Yahoo! — Yahoo! first began as Jerry and Dave's Guide to the World Wide Web, a directory of links created to help organize the Internet during its very early days. That simple directory evolved through the years into the Yahoo! we know today — a starting point for your daily habits.

Marissa Mayer Puts Her Stamp on Yahoo.com — On Wednesday, Yahoo will introduce a fresh new home page with Marissa Mayer's stamp all over it. — Yahoo's home page has long been a sort of sad reflection of the company. A jazzed-up Craigslist of sorts, the site was often cluttered …

iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S each outsold the Galaxy S3 in Q4 — For the first time, Apple has the world's No. 1 and No. 2 world's bestselling smartphones — FORTUNE — Drilling a little deeper into sales data than the larger tech research firms, Strategy Analytics on Wednesday released the chart at right …

Announcing the Twitter Ads API — Since we launched Promoted Tweets in April 2010, marketers have come to Twitter to reach new audiences and engage with more than 200 million active Twitter users on the web, on mobile devices, and on tablets. As interest in Twitter has grown …

Steve Ballmer On the Strategy Behind His Strangest Product — Windows 8 is radically different from any previous version of the Windows operating system. Designed to run on smartphones, tablet computers, laptops, servers, and even supercomputers, Windows 8 presents its users with virtually the same interface on any device.

For $19, an Unlimited Phone Plan, Some Flaws — A typical smartphone costs around $200, but it's usually shackled to a two-year contract that often costs $70 or more monthly and includes limits on data consumption, voice minutes and texts. Even prepaid smartphones, without a contract, can cost $30 to $50 a month and carry limits.

LivingSocial raises $110 million in fresh capital — LivingSocial Inc. has raised a fresh $110 million from a group of current investors that will allow the daily deal giant to “build our reserves, solidify our long-term plans and execute against our vision for the future,” CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy told employees in a memo Wednesday.

China says U.S. hacking accusations lack technical proof — (Reuters) - Accusations by a U.S. computer security company that a secretive Chinese military unit is likely behind a series of hacking attacks are scientifically flawed and hence unreliable, China's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.

Jerry Yang Joins Lenovo Board as ‘Observer’ — HONG KONG— Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo Inc. and resigned last year from the Internet company's board, has landed a plum position with Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. making nearly $200,000 in equity and cash.

EE, Three, BT, Vodafone, O2 All Win 4G Spectrum In The UK, But £2.3B In Bids Falls Short Of The £3.5B Expected — Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, has just announced the winners of the UK spectrum auctions for 4G spectrum on the low-frequency 800MHz band, used for LTE and other mobile broadband services.